Murder or medical mix-up? New questions in the case of killer nurse Colin Norris

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A BBC podcast reveals a scenario in which the nurse's murders may never have taken place at all.

The podcast bid comes a week aft a nationalist enquiry reported connected the lawsuit of erstwhile neonatal caregiver Lucy Letby who was convicted of murdering 7 babies and attempting to execution 7 others astatine a infirmary successful Chester a decennary ago.

While the circumstances are precise different, Norris' supporters besides reason that his lawsuit hinges connected disputed interpretations of aesculapian evidence.

The communicative begins successful 2002 erstwhile Norris, a 26-year-old nurse, primitively from Glasgow, recovered Ethel successful an hypoglycemic coma arsenic she recovered from a breached hip.

Doctors took humor samples to find retired what caused her humor sweetener to driblet truthful low.

The trial results seemed conclusive - she had a monolithic magnitude of insulin successful her blood.

She died 21 days later, sparking a execution investigation.

A caregiver who had been connected displacement connected the nighttime Ethel was recovered told the constabulary that Norris had predicted the 86-year-old mightiness not past the night.

He rapidly became the premier suspect.

The constabulary cognition trawled retrospectively done each the deaths connected Norris's wards, looking for imaginable murders that whitethorn person gone unnoticed.

They identified 3 different cases of unexplained terrible hypoglycemic deaths and 1 wherever the diligent recovered.

No humor tests had been taken from these cases astatine the clip of their deaths to beryllium capable to beryllium insulin poisoning but experts for the prosecution said successful tribunal that their aesculapian charts showed persistent and terrible debased humor sweetener readings.

They said that due to the fact that this was truthful uncommon successful non-diabetics that it indispensable beryllium murder.

When it came to tribunal successful 2007, experts called by the defence said 4 of the 5 patients had died of earthy causes.

But aft a five-month proceedings and a deadlocked jury, Norris was convicted by a bulk of 11-1 and told helium would not beryllium eligible for parole for 30 years.

After the verdict, Ethel's lad Stuart Hall said: "I don't deliberation helium should travel retired again. He's got the cognition to perpetrate execution but bash it discreetly."